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NAVAL NEWS. J ' YARMOUTH, DEC. Nam- y, of Blackney i • tIENDLEY Master, and another Vessel, dame un known. are on shore on Yarmouth Beach. The lieliroce, of Bridlington, from Gottenburgh to Lou d°fliwith gook is on shore on L owesto ft` Beach. The Zliza of and from London, W. ELLAND, bound to Gottenburgh, :with,bale goods, brandy, &c. is on sbor e on Corton Beach. The Brig Albion, of New - ea stle, Capt. GRIGGS, is on shore on Yarmouth Bach. The Brig Amiable Clarissa, of North Shields,' e lt• COATES, with loss of anchors and cables, masts, sails &c. arrived in Yarmouth Haven. All the lies so • a and cargoes are likely to be saved. MARGATE, DEC. lg.—The IPalpole East India n still continues on shore; every exertion is m aking to save her cargo and materials. . ' Si r ltzlliam Pultney and Worcester East India men Are in the Roads, and have been supplied from hence With provisions, anchors, and:cables. ‹..e 12441 's DE C . 19.—Arrived his Majesty' s Ship • ` ll a, from a cruize, and remains in the Downs With the rest of the Ships as per last. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 1 9.—Arriv Wa ed the Warren ex (Wings East Indiaman from the Downs. allied His Majesty's Ship Hope for Guernsey, and • net on a crutze. . - td l'he'Mats Cutter, Letter of Marque, arrived at I Mouth, on Thursday, from Lisno i. In her came Passenger Capt. A. M‘Ge.acu'r, of the 1 Ith Regi ,6,4.let of 'Foot, charged with dispatches from Madrid, fl - '' le ' l t h? 27th uh. and 'which were received at Lis a-;''f,' the sth instant. It was reported on his arrival a,,. c " l "'"nth, that tlie Spantards had rallied after the . -- `eat Of CASTAKOS, and 'cut otf 25,000 of the Ile -QV. The latter part of -this report we do not ..reai t, t, 13 ,4"-=-Ao.-ThA-e was no C ourt of. Aldermen held t„ - r 'Y; the LAtra MAYOR, after inspecting t h e re- mosi ordered it to advance Id. per peck. iii Ile respective proprietors of the Duke of Bridge canal, and canal, and of the Leeds and Liverpool one, e 've +ke bear, at length agreed to unite the two by te n t 'Q'ling the Leeds and Liverpool one "from Wigan r,;.' i gh. This great undertaking will be of ina- I v i s - 'se . advantage to the towns of Liverpool and oth ''ester, as well as to the manufacturers and chtlt4' tolLibitarrts on the line, on account of the eanness anti facility which will then attend the firs, of goods of every description between the •"rst nnanufacauring town, and the second sea-port in ; the British empire. There are only seven miles to I Gut, ,the Comrui,sion Grand Jury of the County of unblie, in their Juryroom, Monday se'rmight; stn"' to the resoltWon Of dis .on- • with the usual iesti v i t , c ,-., -,'dispensing th e iOA a kr-Lict J_Dintler, and appropriating to , ti fines ury , exc amounting- to . n e ar l y ' fo r ty gu i n eas, - the h umane purpose of liberating- from prison a ,141/Iber of unfortunate fellow-cr e at ures , i mpr i sone d _ illt small debts. h,Aivery considerable i m p rovement i n b ar l ey -bread vtliue.en d iscovered by Edward S tracey , E sq. b y Wit!, h it tide be made as light as wheaten bread, usual ut the addition of any of the latter-grain, the th,„ method adopte.d for rendering it fight'. In ver,rresent situation of the Corn Market this disco ) promis e s taie most beneficial consequences.. sale B r i t: , le i R ''n Merchants and others interested in the a p a r o —rittsh manuladured goods at Caiiz, have _ e..s9ted a M , --etnorial to the •SpatiiSh Government titer.mn);.idrie, on their distressing.situatiou, in !lot ne . iog. . uted to land or , rans- - ship their merehandize. he Nli- moilails s itu,nbly pray, that the Govern -ontwill be pleased to redu ce the exhorbitant duties tu British merchandize already arrived, and permit ~,( IQ Q . goods as are intended for transit to be deposit lett in t"6 Royal Warehouses. At the date of the 2,1" le."olaining this communication, that is, on the cei ve u di. n ° ans' , er to this Memorial had been re viet ' 1 " tilt , . Spanish Government, but an answer ' ' exPe6ted in the course of a few days. 4 The D uke of QUEENSBERRY, in cont r ib ut i ng 0 0 ,,, i Le. to th e ;ri ots Subscri t .tion i n a id o f the Spanish Pa .l:4, w lihas set , a noble exatnple t o persons of his teas) tch i we doubt not, w ill be fonowed. Never` th ere a more glorious cause, and poste-rid will er e all w h o hare pi-in-noted it, whate‘er may be the final result. St r• K E‘IBLR has been some time indisposed, and 's ec nv ~i i. ' .. ii - '" , t ' ). under a fit of the gout. erin6 %tt-2a,m`it D ublin Theatre has been mere than usually r --iv e 1 • season,• t least since the appearance of Mi sci „, 1 us a . pub!. O MIT/I, who is a great- favourite with the le, and is warmly patronized by the higher cir cles, t I Y lrs • E DWIN is already in great favour with the dinburgh audience, arid is lilt y to become more ~,3 13' as her talent; are equally adapted to pathetic tiarts in tragedy, and are stiongly marked by vis onica. Aecording to repo r t, s h e i s engaged tor t'€xt season' at both Drury -Lane and Coyent-Gar ve.r), but the truth ts , s h e has entered into articles ' t h the Managers of the termer Theatre. rif ein Thursd a y l ast, during the proceedings in the Lard' Q ir of King's Bench, a L etter was delivered to It EL LENBOROUGH, wh o p res id e d ; h e opened ~,:;rled almost immediately (making an apology to alol • PAartz, who was then pleading) mentioned ud, that he had cast his eye on the signature and e first line, which appearing to refer to some ,e,ause then pending, he had retrained from reading that`Qe Letter, and desired, publicly, whoever brought s Letter, and all persons; to notice, that he con 'tiered all such applicat lens' as most highly improper, tnd such as he hoped he should never have again "de to him. catchin He said than he could n o t h e l p 'hi s how eYe g the name o f t h e party; he would not, I,,vriteve, mention it p u bli c l y, in tenderness to the hi in r - nor would h e suffer it at all to prejudice the .in the cause w hi ch was pending. He then tore . 1 -4= }ter, _and scattered the pieces. FOR am,v INTEL LICENCE. JAMS, DEC. 14.—The Empress Josephine has taken' up her residence at the Thailleries, for th`e winter. The, anniversary of the coronation of the Emperor and King has been celebrated throughout all the departments, with the same solemnity and enthusiasm as at Paris. HANOVER, Nov. 27.—1 t is finally settled that half of the country of Hanover is to be divided' into es tates, and bestowed on several of the Marshals of the Empire. They will produce a revenue of from 35,0001. to i 00,0001. annually, to be enjoyed by. Generals Bernadotte, Mei - tier; Duroe, N,ey, Auge rean, Masgena, Caulincourt, Davoust, Soult, Junot, and Sebastiani. PETERSBURGII, Nov. i G.—Yesterday the bridges on the Neva were broken duwn by the ice. An Imperial Ukase has been issued, which allows Russian subjeds to import through the harbour of Odessa all sorts of Merchandize prohibited in Russia, (with the exception of English tnerchandize,) on condition that they are not to remain in the Empire, and not to be carried by any other roads than those pointed out in the Ukase. VENICE.—The English ships still continue to in fest the coasts of Istria. The enemy has made se veral attempts to land, in order to supply -himself with water and provisions; but he was driven off by the national guards. STRASBURGII, DEC. B.—For some days past our City- is filled with tro, , ps coming successively from Germany. They stop here only for the night, and recommence their march the next day, in order to make room for fr e sh arrivals. The different corps that have, until now, missed through this place, be long to the division of General Boudet. It comes from the Danish territories ; but we are ignorant of its further destination. General Boudet has for the moment established his head-quarters in this town. He will soon, however, set out for Colmar. • We, Louts NAPOLEON, tl7 the grace of God, and! the Constitution of the Kingdom, King (br Hol land, and Constable of France,` have 'decreed, and hereby decree. ART. I. The ports of Holland shall remain shut, I and an vessel shall 126 permitted to enter this king dom, nor to land any cnerchandize. 11. Vessels that may have tpuched at any port in England, or any enemy's port, that shall be found to have been carrying on any prohioited commerce or intercourse, or to have brought in therefrom liter charidize, letters, or passengers ; and also such as • shall have taken on board, at sea, and brought in, mercha.ndize, letters, or passengers, shall not be warned off, but shall be detained and confiscated. 111. The Master and crew of all vessels that shall be known to have put into, England, or any enetity.'s port, .and there to hive taken on board nierchandize, letters, or passengers; and also of those who shall have taken in, at sea, merchandize, letter;; or pas sengers, shall, without any distine.tion, be put on board any one of our ships of war, to serve therein : as common sailors. fVe . Should any vessela, sailing under allied or neutral flags, laden with neutral goods, and, coming from a neutral port, be stranded upon our coast,_ or through extreme divress be couipelled to enter this kingdom, and be disabled from again putting to sea, the cargoes of all such vt.nsia; -depesited in the Royal Warehouses, to b. re-,hipped aticr they. ; are repaired, or, in case of a rep..ir being itriprac ticable,:to be there kepi in ..Safe : custody until after the peace. • . V. In cases where the said cargoes or a part thereof, shall be fouiid to be daimaged, we shall grant permission to dispose of the same by public sale, and the produce shall be deposited in the Royal Treasury unto after the peace. VI. The regulations enaded by'Articles 2 and . 3, • are also applicable to fishing boats and other small vess , 44, of witatever denomination, and likewise to the skippers, captains, masters, and crews of such vessels, that shall be found to have carried on any prohibited commerce or intercourse, and to - have brought in, or to have peen aiding and abetting in brintting ta, merchandize, letters, or passengers. VII. From the restriction imposed ,by Art. 1, are nevertheless -excepted vessels laden with tea and other Chinese produce, which, previous to our first decree of blockade, may haVe obtained a licence from us to proceed for a Chinese cargo. Such pro duce shall be lodged in the Royal warehouses, and shall not be disposed of, nor the proceeds of any Sale paid over to .the owners, without our special order. Vessels laden with salt, and which shall not have brought tn any other article of merchan dim nor any letters or• passengers, are not included it: the above regulations. Nevertheless, if found .•to have contravened tile dispositions of Articles 2 and 3, the same shall be applicable to them also, . without excepting therefrom even the salt, which shall likewise be confiscated. - IX. - Marshals De—Winter andsDumonceau, and Lieutenant-General Cart e ret, • are' each in the dis tritt assigned to them by our Decree of the 13th .of Oetober last,,charged with and made responsible for providing that no vessel arriving shall be suffered to . put to sea again, but that the same shah be effec tually secured until they have been apprised of our further pleasure, which shall be made known to them by our Minister of Finance, with which Mi nister they shall correspond on this 'subject, and who shall apply to us ; and wait for our order, in the case of each. vessel, in manner before decreed. X,. Our Ministers. of Finance, Justice,. and. Po lice, are charged with the execution of the present Decree, of which notice shall be given to,our Minis ters of Marine and Colonies, and of War, and which shall be published. Given arour Royal Palace in Amsterdam, the 27th November, 1808, and third-year of our. reign. . (Signed) Louts, AMSTERDAM, Nov. 29.—The following decision was this day given by his Majesty :--- " Every vessel, armed or unarmed, even though provided with letters of marque, shall, if si a has any merchandize on board, be considered as ,a.Mer chant's vessel, and as such, be subject- to the laws of blockade. • " Louis." On the 2 1 st his Majesty issued a Decree, reducing the forced Loatt, agreed to by the Legislative Body% OD the 30th of March . last, from 30 to 20 millturts . . of guilders. The deficit or ten millions for the.ser vice,of .the year 80R, and also ten millions for that of 1809, are to bt snpplie by a voluntary Loan, to be comillettly rccaid in eighteen years. SPORTING, HOLDEIZkESS.-We have had most excellent ipo - rt the , e two day 4 past with Sir M. M. SyKEs'and Mr. WATT'S Fox-hounds, viz. Monday and Tuesday the I:2th and 13th. • On Monday two, if not three 'horses died from excess of fatigue ; after three runs, two of them severe ; and yesterday, Tuesday, we had one of the most extraordinary runs these hounds have ever known. We had a good run from Burton Constable, and killed, after a shifirpish business of six or seven miles. We afterwards, tried two covers, without finding; but at last had a beautiful - find at RingborOugh, near Aldbrough, and went away most gailantly, on the highest scenting day we have had this season. At first the fox took to the northward, and afterwards made a circle, and then took off to near Burton Pidsea, and across Keyingham Drain, to , Halsharn, Ottringham Church Lands, and to Wine stead, without a check., where we were obliged to give it up, at . near five o'clock, in Colonel MAIbTER'S plantations. We had three or four fallows to cross before we got to the road, the dogs could not get fast across them, and the scent was then become coldish, and it were'getting dark,; •so that we called the hOunds off.. There are more foxes in Holderness than ever were remembered. - You May conjeaure there were not many of the field with the hounds when they got to Halshany, nor until they gave up; several were tired, and the hounds a great distance from their kennel. The Hunt has been accompanied by a very large assemblage of Gentlemen sportsmen, from every part of the neighbourhood ; and we learn, that, some days, not less than two hu n d re d horsemen have taken the field. a COURSING.—AII the Meetings in the South differ from the Mahon Meeting in running for their Prize Cup. In the'South, each member subscribes to it - , and if present, starts a dog—which are drawn by lot , to run against each other, two and two. The next day, the winners of the -preceding day run against each other, till all the dogs are run off; and lastly, the two winners of the whole start for the Cup.— An, interest is thus kept alive through the whole Meeting the best . dog is fairly ascertained, and not more than a brace of dogs are started at once, which renders the course a proper trial, which cannot be the case when five or six greyhounds are running toge ther after one unfortunate hare. The following communication is from a merchant of high respectability . • " Lasnon, DEC. 3.---Affairs, according to ap pearances, are less favourable than we could wish; n withstandin,; the aiNasteN which have befallen the Spaniards, their:patriotistnand enthusiasm ap pear here to be unabated, and while this is the case we ought not to despair of their cause. Ten thou ,sand men are going Iron) hence to Spain, under the command of General MIRANDA, but so slottr are the movements of the Portuguese, that it would be hazarding ninch to say when they would set off: " The, inhabitants of Lisbon (those who hiive property) seem to be unanimous in their determina tion to ler-Lye the country, it the French return here; it is not likely they will contribute much to its de fence with theirmindi thug disposed, and to this is to be attributed the great indifference we witness. The Regency is disliked : nor is it so a'6.tive as it onght,to be. " An . Edict has been published here, calling on every person who has nerses to deliver them up for the service‘of the, country, either gratuitously or at a valuation, at the option, of the owners, under pain of_imprlsonMem ; Whether these tardy measures of co-operation and assistance will be productive of good or riot, • time only can shew. The voluntary contri butions at'e not great, and if the spirit of patriotism in this country, of which so much has been said, ever.did exist to the extent described, be assured it ha's loSt most of iis force: The general hatred to the French is perhaps undiminished, but'an indifference, which may prove desiritetive to the best 'interests. of the country, has succeeded in the capital; in the PrOvinces we hear things have a More favourable appearance, and we are willing to hope, it is the • case. " The differences"hetween the Engliih and POr tliguese troops at Oporto, it apeears, havc been set tled without blood Shed," Extraet of a Letter from a Lieutenant in the 82d regiment to his 14 . ather East Lthian, dated Op.orto November 16 : " The 82d and 97th embarked aboardl. transports at I,:sbon.on 2d curt. and dropped, down the river, next day, to &dein Castle, whence they saileci'fpr Opoi-tb o, the'inortiiiig: of the 4th. We arrived at Oporto on the 9th, but could riot get over the bar,' notwithstanding that we had pilots on lYlard: The transports therefore cruized otF and on till the I 3th, when Sir Rineti - r WILSON, Cornmand ing Officer at Oporto, sent boats from the shore, by which we were all Safely lauded, together with our 'baggage: We are billeted upon the merchants and innkeepers of the town, and the Officers. 01 the two regunents were entertained at dinner by Sir ROBERT on the,day of landing. I was at the Opera last night, but thought very little of the performance.— I have likewise been at the General Hospital, where Many •French prisoners, both Officers and privates, are detained. " Oporto • is'a much cleaner town than Lis bon. We were qilartered at Lisbon from the igth of 06tober till the day we embarked for this place, having been formerly cantoned i❑ Belem Barracks, on account of the number of, sick men in the regi ment. The soil, ten wilei ;round Lisbon, seems to be a strong clay ; but down to the coast, where we first landed, it is a light sand, and extremely barren. " The .only • crops o;th while were those of grapes and apples. As for roads, there is scarcely any thing to be seen which you would call by that na.ne ; and with regard to ploughs, those generally used in Portugal are little better than crooked sticks, though drawn by two oxen. Br itish ploughs and British: ploughmen indeed are much wanted?' Y.Qsterclay morning at five o'clock, Mr. junior, 4,1 I.lffeuineedie..-slreet, shot him- Fellirt a fit of iosanity,'auctipitintlyexpired.. „ , , *4 . 1 • ;'1. 4 ;7f f S.:II7THFIELD CLUE” CIPT .1,7; • zsterc:.'y the - Dae of 134 cord, Lorci Sorrierviile, Earl Thanet, and a great number of Noble and tinguished Patrons of Agriculture, assembled at kr., Sadlcr's Yard, and examined the very excelletit stock. exhibited; many of which, from ,the great attention which they gained, seemed,4tiprove under Feared examinations of tber different points of Lx cellepce. Sir Wm; Curtis's bOiliEt,..Mr. Wllybr2w; she shed some very Ane speeitnens of drum-head cabb „es', of white kol raby; and of Swedish tUrnips ; all of them from seed of his own raising, on Southgai Farm. Mr. Thomas Weaver skewed proofs of a ma2,tiifi., cent print, engraved by W. Ward, represen t ing Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, surrounded by a group of his favourite South-down Sheep, and their attendants. At half-past two o'clock a meeting of the Cub. took plade at Freemasons' Tavern his Grace the Duke of Bedford in the Chair, at which 29 Mem bers were present. Several matters of business re 7 lating to the Club, and to the "Conditions of the next ,show, were transaled, zind the following wcris ele&ed Members 'of the Chill, viz, Lord l)undas, Daniel Ciles, Cornelius Kottwright, Joseph' Sabine, Robert Cooper, lohn Nichols, lama Wickens, W. :L. H. Brown, William lioultbee, lan siinins, lames Ford, Edward Nondon, Thomas Lewin, and Lhrisropher Wright. About five o'clock the meeting was adjourned tilt eleven o'clock this morning; and near 220 person sat dow►► to •a most excellent dinner in Freemason'si Hall, - his Grace the Duke of Bedford in the chair. Attor,the cloth was withdrawn, his Grace gave—. The icing—Prosperity to the Smithfield Club—Success to. good Grating—Mr. Croke—brceMng in all its branchks. His Grace then rose, and after a short introductory speech, read the reward of the Judges, in substance the same as we have already stated in our list of the prizes; on coining to that part which assigns to him self a premium of ten guineas, in Class xif.' cot shearling South Devon Sheep, his Grace in,st hand somely sttated, that competition beiiii; in his inind one of the' principal objects of the Club to, cite, and as no other candidate but himself appear ed in this class, he begged to let tti; , : prennunt revert to the funds of the Club. His Grace proceed ed in s an animated speech to notice the vet) , great degree of improvement and excellence v‘ ;itch is 11.04 year evident in 'the cattle exhibited ; ut time course of which he entered' into a detailed statement of the number of beasts and sheep sold -in S•umth- , field, on the average of every five years since the American war ; noticing particularly the astonishing increase which has taken place, and whreh his Lordship argued never could nave been supple but by the gradual banishment, within that pet hid, of numerous coarse and unprofitable btieeds ot cattle from our pastures, and supplying their place with breeds disposed to early and perteEt maturity ; and principally through which, the price of meat, at least between the grazier and hotelier, has not increased in any degree proportionate to the other hecessarlea ot life.- His Grace then proceeded to notice -thto state of the funds, which, we are sorry ,to hear, are scarcely commensurate to the noble objects which the Club has in view. His Grace, in noticing the alterations intended to be, introduced in time condi tions of next year's shew, stated, that one princi- -, pal' objeEt of the Club being to encourage competi tion among breeders and graziers, it has been re solved-- " That in future, no person who has obtained prize in either of the first six Classes, be entitled to shew a beast in rile swine class in the succeeding year," As early maturity is a very principal qualification in oxen whiCh have not 'worked, it laai been re- solved— " That no beast, above five years old, (at the ensuing period of calving) be allowed to be shewn for a price in Cias vit. or V 111." And, for more effeetually guarding against decep tions in the filling up of the certificates, it has beer; resolved— '• That if mis-statements shall be discovered in any Certi ficate, the'prize sftall be withheld from such candidate, and who shall be deemed disqualified everatterwards. As soon as his. Grace. sat down, Lord Somerville rose and stated, that, in conipliance with the wishes otituany breeders of cattle, a sale of stock of superior quality will take place on the Wednesday succeeding his next Spring Show of Cattle (the Sth of March), and to be Continued in future, on the same day. Notice to be given to his Lordship - ten days before, by those who intend,to offer stuck fur sale ; he con cluded by proposing—, The Duke of*dfuiLl, with three times three. After some interval, his Grace rose, and proposed the.healtli of Lord Somerville, who, in a' neat spezch, returned thanks, and observed, they might always vontinue to . command his service in the goOd cause in which the Onb were engaged. The toasts proceeded with— Agriculture, inanufatture, and comnmerce.—Earl Sea. —The lunges of the show, and th.,ur:a to them :ur lire heat pains which they kave taken.---1 tie Stewards—Mr. liyng and Mr. King.---The Fanning Society of .retard. Sir John Sebright rose and said, that Mr. Gariard'a large piCture, now hanging behind the Preskkut, so strongly reminded him of a scene which had so often given pleasure to most present, that he could not re train from giving—. The next Woburn sheep-shearing, with three times three. • After which the Duke rose and gave a general invitation to the present company to his agricunural fete in June, aml gave— The memory of Mr. Dakewell. His Grace, before he left the Chair, proposect— Prosperity to the Agricultural Societies throughout tht Kingdom. Sir John Sebright being called to the Chair, gave— Long leases to good tenants, which was much.aPplaudet.l. A strong plough and clean furrow. The excellent wine with which the company were supplied kept them together till a late hour, and many .excellent toasts and sentiments were given, which we are unable to notice. FIVE HUNDRED WHOLE TICKETS,---The Ticket No. 4337, drawn this morning a Prize of 50i. and as such entitled to 500 whole Tickets, was sold in one Quarter, one Eighth, and tea Sixteenths Shares, at nistt's truly fortunate Offices, Ni. 4, Curnhill, and No. 9, Charing-Cross.— This Prize may eventually be worth upwards of 100,0001. as all tb o Capital Ptizes are still. undrawn.--- - --The next day of Drawing will be Tuesday the 27th of this [Point), and the Lottery finishes oft the. 3 tst.:—Ulkirmn Tickets and Shares are selling at, the above Offices. '1